Orange sheriff investigates second Hillsborough shooting

Published: Saturday, October 13, 2012 at 12:43 PM.

HILLSBOROUGH - For the second time in a week, the Orange County Sheriff's Office is investigating a shooting in the Hillsborough area.

In both cases, the young male victims were expected to survive.

In the most recent case, Thursday about 6 p.m. a passenger in a Honda Accord shot a 25-year-old man, hitting him three times, at the man's residence on Peace Street, just west of the Hillsborough city limits.

He was hit once in his thigh, once in his arm and one went all the way through his body and missed his heart by one-half inch, Capt. Archie Daniel said.

The man is expected to recover from his wounds, Daniel said.

The shooting occurred at 414 Peace St., a small neighborhood hidden off of West Hill Avenue. The shooter was a passenger in a four-door dark green late 1990s Honda Accord with North Carolina tags.

The vehicle was occupied by four males and went north on West Hill Avenue and then west on Highway 70.

HILLSBOROUGH - For the second time in a week, the Orange County Sheriff's Office is investigating a shooting in the Hillsborough area.

In both cases, the young male victims were expected to survive.

In the most recent case, Thursday about 6 p.m. a passenger in a Honda Accord shot a 25-year-old man, hitting him three times, at the man's residence on Peace Street, just west of the Hillsborough city limits.

He was hit once in his thigh, once in his arm and one went all the way through his body and missed his heart by one-half inch, Capt. Archie Daniel said.

The man is expected to recover from his wounds, Daniel said.

The shooting occurred at 414 Peace St., a small neighborhood hidden off of West Hill Avenue. The shooter was a passenger in a four-door dark green late 1990s Honda Accord with North Carolina tags.

The vehicle was occupied by four males and went north on West Hill Avenue and then west on Highway 70.

Daniel said Thursday's shooting was not related to a shooting about two miles away on N.C. 86 north at the BP gas station just north of the city limits Monday evening, when a 23-year-old man was shot .

The cases are similar because the victims appeared to have known their shooters, but they are not related, Daniel said.

Daniel said he expects an arrest will be made in the first shooting.

In Monday's shooting, the 23-year-old old man drove into the gas station followed by another car. Someone in the second car fired shots at the man in the first car, and a bullet when through the fleshy part of the 23-year-old's side but did not hit any organs. He was treated and released that night at Duke Hospital.

Anyone with information about the second shooting on Peace Street is asked to call the call the Orange County Sheriff's Office at 919-644-3050 and ask for Investigator Greg Strowd, Investigator Tony White or Lt. Randy Hawkins.